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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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